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is a substitution for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the receiver, using instead an agreeable or less offensive expression, or to make it less troublesome for the speaker. Shake Your Euphemism Euphemisms

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Euphemisms - Death pushing up the daisies to croak food for the worms snuff out the candle swansong to be toast gravestone/headstone the sands of time running out

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Arguments have words with someone

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No matter how you say it… Euphemism commercial

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Euphemisms in the Giver With a partner, begin to write down some euphemisms used by Lois Lowry in The Giver. EUPHEMISMS What does Jonas’s community really mean by the following words: 1. Release (page 2): 2. Feelings (page 4) 3. Animals (page 5) 4. Nurturer (page 7)